THE question is, did Sir Keir get his money back?
Just over four years ago the PM employed a voice coach called Leonie Mellinger.
It looks very much as though Sir Keir Starmer flouted lockdown restrictionsPA
PAThe PM went bananas when it was discovered that then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson had munched a piece of cake at a small party in Downing Street[/caption]
GettyJust over four years ago the PM employed a voice coach called Leonie Mellinger[/caption]
He was tired of sounding like an adenoidal insurance salesman from Caterham.
Well, Leonie worked her magic — and what a change.
Starmer now sounds like an adenoidal insurance salesman from Caterham but louder. Yay!
But do you remember the UK four or five years ago? It was almost entirely silent. Covid had struck and we were all in lockdown.
We were not allowed within three yards of each other. People were prevented from seeing their loved ones. Everybody stayed in, all the time.
Except for once a fortnight, when we went to clear the supermarkets out of toilet rolls and pasta.
Thing is, this is when Starmer was having his voice-training sessions. He paid for Leonie to come to London on the train from Brighton on Christmas Eve 2020.
We were in lockdown at the time. Brighton had Tier 3 lockdown measures, London Tier 4.
People in Tier 3 were forbidden from visiting people in Tier 4.
So it looks very much as though Starmer flouted lockdown restrictions by bringing Ms Mellinger to London to stop him talking like a robot on Mogadon.
Now, you may say that this is a minor infraction. What do such trivialities really matter? The bloke is now trying to run the country, FFS, and here you are dredging up a minor incident from years back.
And I would largely agree with you.
Except for one thing. Back then, no voice was shouting louder about how we needed more restrictions, regulations and lockdowns.
Yup, Sir Keir.
Not only that, though. When it was discovered that then Prime Minister Boris Johnson had munched a piece of cake at a small party in Downing Street, Sir Keir went bananas.
Sleaze, he bellowed. Hypocrisy, he screamed. How dare Johnson flout the laws that he had made?
Sir Keir gets very snippy when asked about it
Rod Liddle
Boris had expected ordinary people to stay in their homes and obey while he was out living it up (with a piece of cake). Resign, Sir Keir yelled. Johnson should resign.
A little later, Boris did indeed resign.
And now, all this time later, we find out that Starmer himself was possibly involved in breaking those very same rules. So, now, shouldn’t he resign?
The Labour Party says this is just mud-slinging. And Sir Keir gets very snippy when asked about it.
Conservative MP Gagan Mohindra asked of Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday: “Were all rules followed while the country was in lockdown in December 2020 — not just by him but his team as well, also his voice coach Leonie Mellinger?”
Starmer evaded answering this, of course.
Come back to bite him
But all of this fits together very neatly, doesn’t it.
Starmer is the man who promised an end to the sleaze years of the Conservatives.
And yet within a month or so he was doling out important jobs to his rich mates.
And accepting freebies from anyone who fancied bunging him some tickets or a suit.
So it wouldn’t now be such a huge surprise if he was found to have broken Covid restrictions while ordering Boris Johnson to quit.
Nothing surprises me any more with Starmer.
But how ironic that all this has now come back to bite him.
And if he is shown to be guilty, isn’t that a resigning issue?
Mao the merrier, Joanna
WELL, who’d have thought it? Joanna Lumley has just said that while most people think she’s a Tory, she’s actually a . . . communist.
Yikes! It never occurred to me that Britain’s best-loved actress could be a supporter of a political system which murdered millions of people and bankrupted one of the greatest countries on Earth.
Joanna Lumley has revealed she’s actually a communistGetty
I think Joanna is just being a bit of a luvvie.
They all pretend they’re commies because they think it’s fashionable.
Bake to the basics
WHAT is the world coming to? I’ve just read here that Greggs is doing WRAPS.
Its new, vamped-up menu is to compete with the like of McDonald’s.
AlamyGreggs will soon be serving wraps as part of its vamped-up menu[/caption]
When I read this it felt like my entire belief system was about to come crashing down.
Wraps are woke. And thin. And flavourless. And foreign.
You wouldn’t have seen Nelson eating a wrap. Still less, Churchill.
You know who would eat a wrap? Jeremy Corbyn. Probably with falafel in it.
Whoever convinced the millennials that wraps were superior to buns or sandwiches was almost certainly a foreign agent of some kind.
Let’s stick to traditional British food, like hot-dog pasties with baked beans in them, and hamburgers.
Trump a Strip tease
OPENING soon, the Gaza Vista Five Star All Inclusive Mediterranean Holiday Resort with beach burger bar, pizza cafe and nine-hole golf course designed by Hamas (look out for unexploded shells).
You’ve got to hand it to Donald Trump. He has a certain imagination.
Donald Trump has offered to take charge of the Gaza StripAlamy
He’s offering to take charge of the Gaza Strip. And turn it into another Costa del Sol.
The liberals in the West have gone apes**t and so have the Palestinians.
My guess is that The Donald will be dissuaded by the Saudi government.
But it’s a nice thought that the wretched place might be removed from our TV news bulletins – only to then resurface in A Place In The Sun.
Phobia flaws
DESPITE its already dismal ratings in the opinion polls, Labour now seems determined to annoy everybody even more.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is planning to set up a new council to police Islamophobia.
GettyDeputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is planning to set up a new council to police Islamophobia[/caption]
Listen, Ange. You can’t be phobic about an ideology.
You can dislike it, or respect it. But you can’t be phobic about it.
And there are plenty of very senior Muslims who agree that such a ban would firstly be a restriction on freedom of speech, and secondly lead to resentment among all the other religious communities in the country.
Why shouldn’t we ban Hinduphobia and Sikhphobia?
Koran query
I’M not a big fan of burning books. Or of the people who burn them.
It seems a dim-witted response to something that has angered you.
There is no law banning you from burning a book by Jeffrey ArcherRex
I’m also not sure, though, why it should be a criminal offence to burn one book but not another.
There is, so far as I am aware, no law against setting fire to the Bible.
Nor any law banning you from burning a book by Jeffrey Archer.
So why should we have a law which says it is a criminal act to set fire to the Koran?
It doesn’t make much sense to me. We have to be clear about what we believe in, and consistent in whom the laws apply to.
THE Lucy Letby business has got me all rather perplexed.
It seemed, from the evidence in court, that the case was pretty straightforward.
But now a whole bunch of experts have come forward to say that the clinical evidence was flawed: Letby did not murder a single baby, and all of those horrible deaths were the consequence of gross incompetence on the part of the hospital and especially the doctors.
It seems now almost certain that the case will be referred back for an appeal.
And I wonder if, once that is all concluded, we will be any nearer the truth.
HEARD a couple of days ago on The Chase . . .
Bloke was asked in his cash-builder the following question: “Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s what?”
How did he reply? He said: “Pie.”
He didn’t win.
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